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Quotes On Personal Prayer


Quotes On Personal Prayer

These are quotes that are designed to drive one thought
deep into the mind and heart of the believer concerning
some aspect of prayer.   

They can be used in the prayer meeting, in any
correspondence, church communications such as
bulletins and bulletin boards, letters, calendars, for
personal encouragement, to warm the soul for personal
prayer,  SS classes, quote when praying before meals,
prayer meetings in homes, church staff meetings,
publications, devotional times and devotional material,
daily planners etc.         



A bishop in the Church of England, Andrewes served as royal chaplain to Queen
Elizabeth I and later to Kings James I and Charles I. He was fluent in 15 languages, and
when the Hampton Court Conference convened in 1604, he was chosen as one of the
translators of the proposed new English Bible. When the King James Version was
published in 1611, his contribution could be seen in the Pentateuch and the historical
books. “Lord, I renounce my desire for human praise, for the approval of my peers, the
need for public recognition. I deliberately put these aside today, content to hear you
whisper, “Well done, my faithful servant.” Amen

A great part of my time is spent in getting my heart in tune for prayer.    
Robert Murray McCheyne

Ah, prayer turns trembling saints into great victors! There is no such thing as
surrender, or even discouragement, to a man who dwells in the secret place of the
Most High and abides under the shadow of the Almighty.  
Henry W. Frost

A prayerless soul is a Christless soul.  

A poor blanched thing may be produced in a dark cellar; and so may you maintain a
poor, blanched miserable existence, if you live absent from your God, and apart from
that strength which faith can give you, but you can never attain the healthy verdure of
grace.

A graceless man will be a prayerless man.   
The Prayer Meeting and Its History, J. B. Johnston

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.   
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

And him that prayed before but pray the more.  As appetite comes with eating, so
prayer with praying. Our hearts learn the language of the lips.   The Soul of Prayer, P.T.
Forsyth  

A man's influence in the world can be gauged not by his eloquence, or his zeal, or his
orthodox, or his energy, but by his prayers.    
The Kneeling Christian

A man of prevailing prayer must be filled with the Spirit of God.    
The Kneeling Christian

A child of God ought to expect answers to prayer.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.  
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 65

Ah, my brethren, we little know how many of our prayers are an abomination to the
Lord.  
C. H. Spurgeon

All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it.      
C. H. Spurgeon

All fruitfulness in service is the outcome of prayer -- of the worker's prayers, or of
those who are holding up holy hands on his behalf.

All progress in prayer is an answer to prayer--our own or another's.    
The Soul of Prayer, by P. T. Forsyth

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.   
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them [that is,
in heaven], and ye shall have them [on earth]   
Mark 11: 24

All in God draws me; everything within and around drives me to the throne of grace.    
The Hidden Life, Adolph Saphir

All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion.  
Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer
evil, and strong to work and to war for God.  They are seers who read His secrets; they
know His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way.  
They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come.  
They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals.  
A. T. Pierson  

All real growth in the spiritual life- all victory over temptation, all confidence and peace
in the presence of difficulties and dangers, all repose of spirit in times of great
disappointment or loss, all habitual communion with God-depend upon the practice of
secret prayer.      
The Kneeling Christian

All the evil influences which seek to prevent our approach to God do not deserve to be
compared with the attractive power of God.    
The Hidden Life, Adolph Saphir

All true prayer is exercised in the sphere of the Holy Spirit, motivated and empowered
by Him.    
Eph 6:18

All you need to do to learn to pray is to pray.
Mighty Prevailing Prayer, Wesley Duewel

And all true prayer promotes its own progress and increases our power to pray.        
The Soul of Prayer, by P. T. Forsyth

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our
prayer lists.  
A Call to Spiritual Reformation,
D.A. Carson

Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude
from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God’s personal plan for our
lives..
Ray Stedman

And many shall think they are praying to the Father in my name, whilst deceiving
themselves.
The Kneeling Christian


An uneducated but disciplined believer may have a greater prayer life than a
theologian who thinks and talks a lot about prayer.

And pray in the Spirit on all occasions.
Eph 6:18

And surely it should be enough to restrain all 'lightness' and constrain an unceasing
'earnestness' did we apprehend the ‘”greatness of the Being’” before whom we plead.
C. H. Spurgeon

Andrew Bonar defined fasting as abstaining from anything that hindered prayer.

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.
C. H. Spurgeon

Apostasy generally begins at the closet door.
E M Bounds

As appetite comes with eating, so prayer with praying. Our hearts learn the language
of the lips.   The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us
until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until no
Prayer.
O. Hallesby, p 146

As well could you expect a plant to grow without air and water as to expect your heart
to grow without prayer and faith.

As we lift up our soul in prayer to the living God, we gain the beauty of holiness as
surely as a flower becomes beautiful by living in the sunlight.
The Kneeling Christian

As a painted man is no man, and as a painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no
prayer.      Thomas Brooks

Ask of Me -- I will give, says an almighty, all-loving God, and we scarcely heed His
words!

Ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers into His harvest.
Mat 9:38

Asking with shameless persistence, the importunity that will not be denied, returns
with the answer in hand.

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee,
wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
Thomas Aquinas

Believing prayer from a wholly-cleansed heart never fails.
The Kneeling Christian

Both Scripture and experience unite to indicate that there is cumulative power in
unified praying.

But it is the Holy Spirit of God Who is prayer’s great Helper.
The Kneeling Christian

But if one neglects his closet, then all evil comes of it.
C. H. Spurgeon

But the root of the difficulty of public prayer lies further back than in the matter of style.
It lies in the difficulty of private prayer, in its spiritual poverty, its inertia, its anemia.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber..
Mt 6:6

By importunity something else is meant than passionate dictation and stormy
pertinacity--imposing our egoist will on God, and treating Him as a mysterious but
manageable power that we may coerce and exploit.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Can we pray in earnest if we do not in the act commit ourselves to do our best to bring
about the answer? Can we escape some king of hypocrisy? This is especially so with
intercession.   The Soul of Prayer
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth


Charles Finney, after spending a day in the woods in prayer and fasting, preached that
night in a phenomenally irreligious congregation. The sermon was accompanied by
such divine power that the whole congregation, except one man, fell prostrate upon
the floor, and voiced their agony under conviction of sin, in such loud outcries that the
preacher was forced to stop.

Christians pray as they feel; and in prayer they feel themselves in the presence of God,
the Hearer of prayer, and the Searcher of hearts.
The Prayer Meeting and Its History, J. B. Johnston

Christ went more readily ad crucem (to the cross), than we do to the throne of grace.
Thomas Watson

Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God’s presence.  It is vain to say, ‘I
have too much work to do to find time.’  You must find time or forfeit blessing.  God
knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.
A. T. Pierson   

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven.
Thomas Brooks

Cold prayers ask for a denial!
C. H.  Spurgeon

Communion is deeper than theology.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 65

Communion with God is essential before we can have real communion with our fellow-
man.
The Kneeling Christian

Count It Done
A father wrote to his son,
Who was faraway from home;
“I have sent you a beautiful gift,
It may be delayed, but ‘twill come;
It is what you have wanted most,
And have asked for many days;”
And before the child received the gift
He voiced his thanks and praise.
Our Father saith unto us:
“Your need shall be supplied;
Ask and receive that your joy be filled,
And My joy in you abide.”
Shall we wait to thank till we see
The answer to every prayer?
Forbear to praise till we feel
The lifted pressure of care?
Nay, let us trust His word
And know that the thing is done,
For His promise is just as sure
As a father’s to his son.
Annie Johnson Flint
V. Raymond Edman, But God!, (Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids; 1962), p.
53

Criticism of prayer dissolves in the experience of it. When the soul is at close quarters
with God it becomes enlarged enough to hold together in harmony things that oppose,
and to have room for harmonious contraries.  
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will
molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little
or both. And we sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his devices…I do not think
he minds our praying about things if we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes
steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer.  
Mary Warburton Booth

Do believers or unbelievers ever say of us, “We know your prayers are answered”?     
The Kneeling Christian

Do I really believe that prayer is a power?

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the
day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.  James
Hudson Taylor Do not be so timid about praying wrongly if you pray humbly.   
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men and women. Do not pray for tasks
equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. - Phillips Brooks

Do the angels veil their faces before You, and shall I be content to prattle through a
form with no soul and no heart?     
C. H. Spurgeon

Do you imagine that you shall ever go far along in the heavenly pilgrimage if you
neglect prayer?

Does prayer indeed "move the Hand that moves the world"?

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.   
John Calvin

Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed.

Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life.

Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul.

Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring
blessings.  A Call to Spiritual Refromation.
D.A. Carson

Either we pray or we faint.     
Ray Stedman

Eloquence and ardour have not done so much for Christ's cause as the humble
virtues, the united activity, and the patient prayers of thousands of faithful people
whose names are quite unknown.   The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Even pagan savages cry out to someone or something to aid them in times of danger
and disaster and distress. How much more should we that know the true God.

Every prayerless day is a statement by a helpless individual, “I do not need God
today.”        
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Every unanswered prayer is a clarion call to search the heart to see what is wrong
there; for the promise is unmistakable in its clearness: "If ye shall ask anything in My
name, that will I do"   
John 14:14

Failing to pray reflects idolatry–a trust in substitutes for God.        
The Arena of Prayer.
Ben Jennings


Fervency of Spirit
It is not the arithmetic of our prayers, how many they are;
nor the rhetoric of our prayers, how eloquent they are;
nor the geometry of our prayers, how long they be;
nor the music of our prayers, how sweet our voice may be;
nor the logic of our prayers, now argumentative they may be;
nor the method of our prayers, how orderly they may be—which God cares for.
Fervency of spirit is that which availeth much.
William Law, in J. S. Baxter, Explore the Book, p. 236


For more than half a century, I have never known one day when I had not more
business than I could get through. For 40 years, I have had annually about 30,000
letters, and most of these have passed through my own hands. I have nine assistants
always at work corresponding in German, French, English, Danish, Italian, Russian,
and other languages. Then, as pastor of a church with 1200 believers, great has been
my care. I have had charge of five orphanages; also at my publishing depot, the
printing and circulation of millions of tracts, books, and Bibles. But I have always made
it a rule never to begin work till I have had a good season with God.
George Mueller

For more than Thirty-five years.  I have had much intercourse with dying saints and
sinners of various ages and conditions.  In all that time I have not heard one express
regret that he had spent too much time in prayer; I have heard many mourn that they
had so seldom visited a throne of grace.
Wm. S. Plumer in The Power of Prayer, by Samuel Prime, p 244

For the most part our repetitions are evidence not of the fervency, but of the
barrenness of our minds and the slightness of our frame.”  A Guide to Prayer, Isaac
Watts, p 60  “Be not rash to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and thou
upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.  
Eccles. 5:2.

From the day of Pentecost, there has been not one great spiritual awakening in any
land which has not begun in a union of prayer, though only among two or three. And
no such outward, upward movement has continued after such prayer meetings have
declined. It is in exact proportion to the maintenance of such joint and believing
supplication and intercession that the Word of the Lord in any land or locality has had
free course and been glorified.  
A. T. Pierson

Give me Scotland or I die.       
John Knox

God always does His new things in the same old way.   
Everything by Prayer,  Fred Hartley, page  5

God bestows His Holy Spirit in His fullness only on men of prayer.

God has left many things dependent upon man’s thinking and working, why should He
not leave some things dependent upon man’s praying?    
The Kneeling Christian

God likes to see His people shut up to this, that there is no hope but in prayer. Herein
lies the Church’s power against the world.
Andrew Bonar, 1853   

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own.

God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
John Owen

God has made gravity a law  in one realm, he has made prayer a law in a higher realm,
and it is even greater folly to ignore the latter than the former.
Prayer and its Remarkable Answers, William Patton p 56

God hates insincerity or lukewarmness in prayer.   
Rev 3:15-16

God delays in answering our prayers because men would pluck their mercies green;
God would have them ripe.

God knew that Paul would be a better man with the “thorn” than without it.

God desires to glorify His name by answering prayer.

God does not bestow His gifts on the casual of hasty comers and goers.  Much with
God alone is the secret of knowing Him and of influence with Him.
E. M. Bounds

God is greater than His promises, and often gives more than either we desire or
deserve -- but He does not always do so.
The Kneeling Christian

God delights to answer prayer; and He has given us His word that He will answer.

God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless
promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto
intercession.
A. T. Pierson


God’s child can conquer anything by prayer. Is it any wonder that Satan does his
utmost to snatch that weapon from the Christian or to hinder him in the use of it?
Andrew Murray

God’s greatest movements in this world have been conditioned on, continued and
fashioned by prayer. God has put Himself in these great movements just as men have
prayer. Persistent, prevailing, conspicuous and mastering prayer has always brought
God to present. How vast are the possibilities of prayer! How wide its reach! It lays its
hand on Almighty God and moves Him to do what He would not do if prayer was not
offered. Prayer is a wonderful power placed by Almighty God in the hands of His
saints, which may be used to accomplish great purposes and to achieve unusual
results. The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those
promises.
E. M. Bounds


God wills that men should pray everywhere, but the place of His glory is in the
solitudes, where He hides us in the cleft of the rock, and talks with man face to face as
a man talks with his friend.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 35

God’s acquaintance is not made hurriedly.
E. M. Bounds

Go into your chamber, shut the door, and cultivate the habit of praying audibly. Write
prayers and burn them. Formulate your soul. Pay no attention to literary form, only to
spiritual reality. Read a passage of Scripture and then sit down and turn it into prayer,
written or spoken. Learn to be particular, specific, and detailed in your prayer so long
as you are not trivial. General prayers, literary prayers, and stately phrases are, for
private prayer, traps and sops to the soul. To formulate your soul is one valuable
means to escape formalizing it. This is the best, the wholesome, kind of self-
examination. Speaking with God discovers us safely to ourselves We "find" ourselves,
come to ourselves, in the Spirit.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
A Call to Spiritual Reformation, D. A. Carson

Good when He gives, supremely good;
Nor less when he denies:
Afflictions from His sovereign hand,
Are blessings in disguise.

Grace and glory flow from Thee; Shower, O shower them, Lord, on me.

Great pray-ers have always been great students of the Word of God.

Has not that which is heaven’s greatest boon to man (prayer), become to us a dry dead
duty?
C. H. Spurgeon

Have you advanced far enough in the Christian life to believe Him; that is, to believe
what He says and all He says?
The Kneeling Christian

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late  and how
little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to
substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.  To pray for revival while
ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get
nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a
substitute for obedience.
A. W. Tozer  

Have you only repeated many a “form of prayer”, while the breathing desire, the living
words, have not come from your lips?
C. H. Spurgeon

Have you, when in prayer, ever had the witness borne in upon you that your request
was granted?     The Kneeling Christian

He can do all things who prays well.  All soulwinners have conquered on their knees.  
Wherever the secret of prevailing prayer is found, something supernatural will come to
pass.
G. F. Oliver  

He is the Giver not only of the answer, but first of the prayer itself.
The Soul of Prayer, by P. T. Forsyth

He manifests Himself to those who pray in secret as He cannot to those who have no
inner sanctuary of the soul.  The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 79

He that lives without prayer or prays without life, has not the Spirit of God.
John Mason (1646-1694)

He who does not pray when the sun shines knows not how to pray when the clouds
arise.    How Can God Answer Prayer?
William Edward Biederwolf,  p 21

He who prays is nearer Christ than even the apostles were, certainly than the apostles
before the Cross and Resurrection.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

He who prays in private is a real Christian.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.
William Law

He who will not pray until, on good grounds, he is sure that he has all right affections
and graces, will go to hell before his prayer begins
The Power of Prayer, Samuel Prime p 259

He has mastered but little of prayer who knows little of the Spirit-groaning which
cannot be uttered.  The Greatest Force on Earth, Payne

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
Prayer, O. Hallesby

He that hears without ears understands us without our words. Yet as language is of
absolute necessity in social prayer, that others may join with us in our addresses to
God, so for the most part we find it necessary in secret, too, for there are few persons
of so steady and fixed a power of meditation as to maintain warm devotion and to
converse with God, or with themselves profitably, without words.
A Guide to Prayer, Isaac Watts, p 69

He who prays most prays best.

He works so naturally and so sweetly with our own spirits that we cannot with
certainty distinguish his working by any fervour or strength of impression.  His
working is best known by the favour and relish of divine things that we feel in our
souls, and the consequent fruits of sanctification in our hearts and lives.
A Guide to Prayer, Isaac Watts,  p 149

His Holy Spirit puts fresh ideas into the minds of praying people.
The Kneeling Christian

Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Matthew 17:21

How dare we work for Christ without being much on our knees?
The Kneeling Christian

How many years of our short life are spent to learn the Greek, Latin and French
tongues, that we may communicate among the living nations or understand the
writings of the dead?  Shall not the language in which we converse with heaven and
the living God be thought worth equal pains? How laboriously do some persons study
the art of conversation, that they may accepted in all company and share in the favour
of men?  Is not the same care due to seek all methods of acceptance with God, that we
may approve ourselves in this presence? What a high value is set upon human oratory
or the art of persuasion, by which we are equipped to debate and ail with our fellow
creatures?  This art of divine oratory which teaches us to utter our inward utterings of
soul, and plead and prevail with our Creator through the asssitance of the Holy Spirit
and mediation of our Lord Jesus – is it of no esteem with us?
A Guide to Prayer, Isaac Watts,  171

How many periods of five, ten, or fifteen minutes that could be devoted to prayer do we
waste or leave unemployed in the course of a day”.
Prayer Power Unlimited, J. Oswald Sanders

How often has very earnest prayer for the fullness of the Holy Ghost been in vain,
because he who sought that unspeakable blessing sought it rather for the glory which
the possession of it, or the reputation for the possession of it, might bring to man, than
for the honor and praise that might be brought to God.
G. H. C. Macgregor   

How terrible is the cost of robbing God of time for prayer. When we rob God of time for
quiet, we are robbing Him of ourselves. It is only in the quiet that we can really know
Him and know ourselves, and be sure that we give ourselves back to Him. Oh, for
God's sake, do not risk keeping the windows of Heaven closed by robbing God of time.
(Keswick 1946 ) – Gordon M. Guinness

Hurried prayers and muttered Litanies can never produce souls mighty in prayer.
Samuel Chadwick

I am convinced that when a Christian rightly prays the Lord’s prayer...His praying is
more than adequate.
Martin Luther

I will cry to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me.
Psalm 57:2

I should as soon expect life in a dead man as spiritual life in a prayerless soul!
The Kneeling Christian

I had rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the
righteous.   Thomas Lye

If God gave His Son unasked, how much more will He give His Holy Spirit to them that
ask it! But let us not prescribe the form in which He comes.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million
enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me!
Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843), pioneer missionary to America

If it be true that the whole Trinity is in the gospel of our salvation, it is also true that all
theology lies hidden in the prayer which is our chief answer to the gospel.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

If prayer is the greatest achievement on earth, we may be sure it,will call for a discipline
that corresponds to its power.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick. page  27

I find it a good thing to fast. I do not lay down rules for anyone in this matter, but I know
it has been a good thing for me to go without meals to get time for prayer. So many say
they have not sufficient time to pray. We think nothing of spending an hour or two in
taking our meals.
D. E. Hoste

If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish,
let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO there UNWARNED and
UNPRAYED for.
Charles Spurgeon

If the Holy Spirit doesn’t do it, there’s nothing to it.
Everything by Prayer,  Fred Hartley, page  5

I had rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the
righteous. Thomas Lye

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I
have gotten something for myself.
Samuel Rutherford

I have studied the Bible an history with extreme care, and wherever I have found a man
of power I have found a man of prayer."
J.C. Ryle

In general we must hold that whenever any religious controversy arises, which either a
council or ecclesiastical tribunal behooves to decide; whenever a minister is to be
chosen; whenever, in short any matter of difficulty and great importance is under
consideration: on the other hand, when manifestations of the divine anger appear, as
pestilence, war, and famine, the sacred and salutary custom of all ages has been for
pastors to exhort the people to public fasting and extraordinary prayer.
Calvin, Institutes, IV, 12, 14

In our prayer God returns from His projection in Nature to speak with Himself. When
we speak to God it is really the God who lives in us speaking through us to Himself.  
His Spirit returns to Him who gave it; and returns not void, but bearing our souls with
Him.
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth  

In the book of Acts they are praying in every chapter except two; and in those
chapters they are in trouble.
Armin Gesswein   Everything by Prayer,  Fred Hartley, page 25

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never
learn to pray. It ought to possible to give God one hour out of twenty-four all to Himself.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick page  24

Is there any proof that a man is a man of God like the fact that he is a man of prayer? Of
Elijah it is said that he “prayed in his prayer”  James 5: 17, A.V.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page  17

It is as miraculous as it is real that the holy and the guilty should live together in such
habitual communion as the life of prayer.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

It’s been stated these days, “They just don’t make missionaries like William Carey.”
Carey changed the history of missions and the face of India 200 years ago. Few know
of Carey’s sister, paralyzed and bedridden for 50 years. Although unable to speak for
much of that period, with great effort she allowed herself to be propped up in bed. She
wrote long encouraging letters to her brother. And she prayed for him several hours
per day for 50 years!

It is reasonable that God should withhold a blessing, until we  feel our need of it
sufficiently.
Prayer and its Remarkable Answers, William Patton p 73

It is the man that most really has God that most really seeks God.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

It is the Spirit that keeps us praying for the Spirit, as it is grace that keeps us in grace.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

It is truer to say that we live the Christian life in order to pray than that we pray in order
to live the Christian life.
The Soul of Prayer, by P. T. Forsyth

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful
than armies, more influential than wealth, and mightier than all learning.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 81

It was your Lord who put an end to long-windedness, so that you would not pray as if
you wanted to teach God by your many words. Piety, not verbosity, is in order when
you pray, since He knows your needs. Now someone perhaps will say: ‘But if He
knows our needs, why should we state our requests even in a few words? Why
should we pray at all? Since He knows, let Him give what He deems necessary for us.’
Even so, He wants you to pray so that He may confer His gifts on one who really
desires them and will not regard them lightly.
Augustine

It would revolutionize the lives of most men if they were shut in with God in some
secret place for half an hour a day.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 29

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking
Him to do His work through me.
Hudson Taylor

I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time--no matter
at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the last I would have
devised, it came.       Adoniram Judson

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Jacob

If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without
ceasing!
Armin Gesswein   Everything by Prayer,  Fred Hartley, page 137

If history be true, God’s great men were all men of prayer.
How Can God Answer Prayer?
William Edward Biederwolf,  p 22

?  If it is a fact that I must pray, and shall pray when “cornered” by circumstances, then
the better I pray the better for me--let me master the practice while there is leisure and
time, remembering that here as elsewhere only practice makes perfect.
The Practice of Prayer, Albert D.Belden, p 14

?  If it be true that He “waits top be gracious” then is it not sheer insanity to make no
“trial of His love”
The Practice of Prayer, Albert D.Belden, p 14

If the life is not one of self-denial--of fasting--that is, letting the world go; of prayer--that
is, laying hold of God then prayer is neither spiritual or profitable.

If pain afflict, or wrongs oppress,
If cares distract, or fears dismay,
If guilt deject, or sin distress,
The remedy’s before you: Pray
Joseph Hart

If our prayers are not answered -- always answered, but not necessarily granted -- the
fault must be entirely in ourselves, and not in God.
The Kneeling Christian

If we would do much for God, we must ask much of God: we must be men of prayer.
Payson

If frequent prayer, and, at times, long hours of prayer, were necessary for our Savior,
are they less necessary for us?
The Kneeling Christian

If my people...will...then will I.
2 Chron 7:14

If we really loved our blessed Savior, should we not oftener seek communion with Him
in prayer?  
The Kneeling Christian

If the Spirit prays in us, shall we not share His “groanings” in prayer?
The Kneeling Christian

If there were no devil there would be no difficulty in prayer, but it is the evil one’s chief
aim to make prayer impossible.
The Kneeling Christian

If Christ is dwelling in our hearts by faith: if the Holy Spirit is breathing into us our
petitions, and we are “praying in the Holy Ghost,” ought we not to know that the
Father “hears” us?
Jude 20

If prayer cannot influence the course of world events then Paul’s exhortation in
1 Tim 2:1-3 was and is pointless.

If we ask anything, according to His will, He hears us.
I John 5:14

If theology is the queen of the sciences; then prayer is the queen of  the experiences.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come
out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
James Hudson Taylor  

Ignorance and helplessness in prayer are indeed blessed things if they cast us upon
the Holy Spirit.
The Kneeling Christian

Importunate perseverance is a pre-requisite to success in prayer, because it has an
intimate connection with the preparation of a right spiritual condition in us.
Prayer and its Remarkable Answers, William Patton p 82

Importunity is one of the instructors in God’s training school for Christian culture.
W.E. Biederwolf

In the midst of toppling thrones, Daniel maintained his serenity because he knew there
was a sovereign God in heaven to whom he prayed.

In my name  (John 14:13,14; 15:16; 16: 23, 24, 26). Evidently something very important
is here implied. It is more than a condition -- it is also a promise, an encouragement, for
our Lord’s biddings are always His enablings.
The Kneeling Christian

In very love refuse -Whate’er Thou seest-Our weakness would abuse.

In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer
may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God;
and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she
shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!
C. H. Spurgeon

Incense can neither smell not ascend without fire; no more does prayer unless it
arises from spiritual warmth and fervency.
Acker

Influence at the court of heaven depends not upon birth, or brilliancy, or achievement,
but upon humble and utter dependence upon the Son of the King.
The Kneeling Christian

In intercession our King upon the throne finds His highest glory; in it we shall find our
highest glory too.
The Ministry of Intercession, Andrew Murray, p 5.

In prayer the Church has received power to rule the world.  The Church is always the
little flock.  But if it would stand together on its knees, it would dominate world politics--
from the prayer room.
Prayer, O. Hallesby, p 158

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John Bunyan

Intercession is the noblest work God entrusts to us humans.
T.W. Hunt

In the fine and difficult art of prayer, intercession is undoubtedly the most difficult of
accomplishment.  As far as my understanding of these things goes, intercessory
prayer is the finest and most exacting kind of work that it is possible for men to
perform.
Prayer, O. Hallesby, p 164

Is his Holy Spirit promised to teach us to pray; and shall a Christian be careless or
unwilling to receive such divine teaching?
A Guide to Prayer, Isaac Watts,  172

Is not the lack of urgent desire, rather than the lack of adequate time, at the root of our
meager praying?
Prayer Power Unlimited,  J. Oswald Sanders

Is not God, the Giver, more than all His gifts?

It is when we have failed and know not “what prayers to offer” or “in what way,” that
the Holy Spirit is promised as our Helper.
The Kneeling Christian

It is no more true that God is a Creator of worlds, than it is that he is a Hearer of
Prayer.        
Prayer and its Remarkable Answers, William Patton p 56

It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a
time to pray; but we must pray patiently, believing, continue in prayer until we obtain
an answer.
George Mueller

Is it not true that the folk who are most oppressed by the “problems” of prayer are the
people who have least “praying” experience?
The Practice of Prayer, Albert D.Belden, p 13

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
Richard Sibbes

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a
duty, and not as a privilege.T
he Hidden Life, Adolph Saphir                        

It can easily be shown that all want of success, and all failure in the spiritual life and in
Christian work, is due to defective or insufficient prayer.
The Kneeling Christian

It is as natural to Him to answer prayer as it is for us to ask.    The Kneeling Christian

It ought to be possible to give God one hour of twenty-four all to Himself.
Samuel Chadwick

It must be because I live too little in the Spirit that my prayer is to little in the Spirit.
Andrew Murray

It is a totally wrong and fatal idea for one who would really pray to think of God
as reluctant or unwilling to bless.
The Practice of Prayer, Albert  .Belden, p 17

It is in the atmosphere of prayer that the Holy Spirit nurtures and develops our faith or
redirects our wills.

It is always man’s tendency  to work and speak and run whether sent or not, and
whether or not the hour is come.

It is the man that most really has God that most really seeks God.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

It is when we pray, that the Holy Spirit takes of the things of Christ and reveals them
unto us (John 16:15).
The Kneeling Christian

It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.
C. H. Spurgeon

It is only when whatsoever we do is done in His name that He will do whatsoever we
ask in His name.  
The Kneeling Christian

It belongs to the very idea and nature of man to be in communion with God.

It was once said to a useful minister: “Sir, if you did not plough in your closet, you
would not reap in your pulpit.”
The Power of Prayer, Samuel Prime  p 248

It would seem as if the biggest thing in God’s universe is a man who prays. There is
only one thing more amazing, and that is-that man, knowing this, should not pray.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 15

I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach;  A minister's
highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray.
H. MacGregor

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.
Charles Spurgeon

Jesus puts “Abba” on the lips of those who trust in Him, for he bought their birth-right
with his blood.

Jesus taught his desciples that the highest exercise of prayer was in obtaining God’s
divinest bestowment, the gift of the Holy Spirit.  Lk 11:13
William Patton

Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of
improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot
disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.
William Gurnall

John Wesley spent two hours daily in prayer, and commonly said that ‘God does
nothing but in answer to prayer.’ Martin Luther said, ‘If I fail to spend two hours in
prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much
business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

Learning about prayer can be positively harmful because it increases our
responsibility and intensifies our guilt if we fail to pray.    Principles and Practice of
Prayer, Ivan French

Let me have your prayers, and I can do anything!  Let me be without my people’s
prayers, and I can do nothing!

Let us give God the chance of putting His mind into us, and we shall never doubt the
power of prayer again.

Let him pray now that never prayed before,
And him that prayed before but pray the more.   
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy
God.  

Let no sense of your unworthiness prevent your taking hold of the boundless and all-
sufficient grace of God.

Lifeless prayer is no more prayer than a picture of a man is a man.
Richard Watson

Lips cry “God be merciful”   That ne’er cry “God be praised.”  O come let us adore Him!
The Kneeling Christian

Livingston of Shotts, on two different occasions, preached with such power that in
each service 500 were converted. Both sermons were preceded by a night of prayer.

Lord, Be Thou within me, to strengthen me; Without me, to keep me; Above me, to
protect me; Beneath me, to uphold me; Before me, to direct me; Behind me, to keep
me from straying; Round about me, to defend me. Blessed be Thou, O Lord, our
Father, for ever and ever.
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair,
hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as
to understand, To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in
pardoning that we are pardoned; It is in dying that we are born to eternal life. - Francis
of Assisi

Lukewarmness in prayer, as in everything else, is nauseating to God and comes away
empty-handed.

Many of the most blessed seasons of prayer I have ever known have begun with the
feeling of utter deadness and prayerlessness; but in my helplessness and coldness I
have cast myself upon God, and looked to Him to send His Holy Spirit to teach me to
pray, and He has done it.
R.A. Torrey

Many a person is praying for rain with his tub the wrong side up.   Sam Jones

Mary Queen of Scots (Bloody Mary as she was sometimes called) was more terrified of
John Knox’s prayers than she was of any army that might be brought against her.

May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love, and joy of God’s
presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of my self as a vessel for Him
to fill full of His Spirit and His love.”
Andrew Murray


Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our
persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
J. Sidlow Baxter

Men of power are without exception men of prayer.

Men who are reluctant about prayer do not belong in places of leadership in the
church.
Principles and Practice of Prayer, Ivan French

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
Tennyson

Most Christians do not give God a chance to show His delight in granting His
children's petitions; for their requests are so vague and indefinite.
The Kneeling Christian

Much secret prayer means much public power.
The Kneeling Christian

My prayer is Thy Will. Thou didst create it in me. It is Thine more than mine.
The Soul of Prayer, by P. T. Forsyth

Neglecting prayer is not a weakness; it is a sinful choice.        
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Never will man pray as he ought unless the Master will guide both his mouth and his
heart.
John Calvin

No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united
prayer---Christians persistently praying for revival.  
J. Edwin Orr

No church can be said to be fulfilling its ministry to any degree if it is not laying hold of
the power of God through prayer.
Principles and Practice of Prayer, Ivan French

No man can progress in grace if he forsakes prayer.
C. H. Spurgeon

No form of Christian service is both so universally open to all and so high in Christ’s
priority for all Christians as prevailing prayer.
Mighty Prevailing Prayer, Wesley Duewel

No one suffers from self-righteousness who spends much time in prayer.

No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with
God.

?  No man realising God’s love will begrudge time for prayer or let business or
pleasure take precedence of his sacred trust with love.  
The Practice of Prayer, Albert D.Belden, p 18

No prayer, no breakfast.

No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 21

Nothing brings such leanness into a man’s soul as lack of prayer.
C. H. Spurgeon

Nothing is beyond the reach of prayer except that which was out of the will of God.
Prayer Power Unlimited,   J. Oswald Sanders

Nothing exceeds in power a holy man at prayer.

Nothing more clearly illustrates Armin Gesswein’s philosophy of revival-prayer than
the Upper Room. For this reason, throughout the book we will spell it with a capital U
and a capital R. And for the sake of brevity, we could refer to it as the Just as every
local hospital has an ER, every local church needs a UR.
Everything by Prayer,  Fred Hartley, page  13

Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that
prayed and prevailed.  The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no
supernatural power.  A rationalized faith, a socialized Church, and a moralized gospel
may gain applause, but they awaken no conviction and win no converts.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 89

Not until we are shut up to a difficulty which we can in no way touch, may we rely on
prayer alone.  Prayer and its Remarkable Answers, William Patton p 85

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will
as if it were Thy will.
Augustine                                                                                        

O let the excellency and high value of this gift of prayer engage our earnestness and
endeavours in proportion to its superior dignity. Let us covet the best of gifts with the
warmest desire, and pray for it with ardent supplications. (1 Cor. 12:31).
A Guide to Prayer, Isaac Watts,  171

O let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.

Oh, believe it, Prayer is the only thing absolutely certain and attainable on earth--this is
the only thing in which we can be perfectly successful!  

Oh, those cold-hearted prayers that die on our lips! Those frozen supplications would
not even move men’s hearts, how should they move the heart of God?
C. H. Spurgeon

Oh, to be known at the throne.  The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 141

One has said that while prayer is the day's best beginning it must not be like the
handsome title-page of a worthless book.
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth

One of the first things He commands is that there shall be a place of prayer.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 28

One sin allowed in the life wrecks at once our usefulness and our joy, and robs prayer
of its power.    The Kneeling Christian

One’s spiritual life will never rise above the practice of one’s private prayer life.  
Developing your Secret Closet of Prayer, Richard Burr, p 1.

Only they who have the mind of strangers and pilgrims can expect to have fellowship
with Jesus.

Only attempt to effect nearness to God by your own exertions, when He has departed
from you.

Our faith may be resting on a wrong basis: faith in faith or faith in prayer rather than
faith in God.  Principles and Practice of Prayer,  Ivan French

Our growth in prayer may be to us the test of our growth in all other respects.
C. H. Spurgeon

Our Prayer-book, the Bible, does not prescribe prayer, but it does more--it inspires it.
And prayer in Christ's name is prayer inspired by His first interest--the gospel. Do not
use Christ simply to countersign your egoist petition by a closing formula, but to
create, inspire, and glorify it. Prayer in Christ's name is prayer for Christ's object--for
His Kingdom, and His promise of the Holy Ghost.   The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Our prayer is what God hears, not merely the words we utter; God hears our thoughts,
the desires of our hearts

Our actions say that we do not consider prayer worth while.

Our prayers are so cold and dry because there is so little of Christ in them.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.  
A Call to Spiritual Refromation, D. A.  Carson

Our Lord employed His time strategically, and in selecting His priorities, He always set
aside abundant time for prayer.

Our Savior’s call to prayer is simply a clarion call to holiness. “Be ye holy!” for without
holiness no man can see God, and prayer cannot be efficacious.
The Kneeling Christian

Our self-oblation stands on His; and the spirit of prayer flows from the gift of the Holy
Ghost, the great Intercessor.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Our disinclination to pray is our most painful experience; it is so irrational and
unaccountable.
The Hidden Life, Adolph Saphir

Our prayer for a spiritual awakening will without question be most effective if we take
up the work of interceding for certain individuals in particular.
Prayer, O. Hallesby, p 78

Our prayers are heard not so much because they are importunate but because they
are filial.

Our prayers are always a result of Jesus’ knocking at our heart’s doors.
Prayer, Ole Hallesby, p 11

Our lives must be as holy as our prayers.
Andrew Murray

Our spirituality and our fruitfulness are always in proportion to the reality of our
prayers.
The Kneeling Christian

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far
greater prayer than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by
obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all
difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to
pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too
hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.    R. A. Torrey

Paul had prayed most of his life but as soon a he was converted it is said of him
“Behold, he prayeth,”
Acts 9:11

Pentecost didn’t come through a preaching service; Pentecost came to a prayer
service. From Pentecost to Patmos, God never departs from the pattern.
Armin Gesswein  Everything by Prayer,  Fred Hartley, page 16

Praise and thanksgiving not only open the gates of heaven for me to approach God,
but also “prepare a way” for God to bless me.
The Kneeling Christian

Pray as if everything depends on God, then work as if everything depends on you. -
Martin Luther  

Pray until you can pray; pray to be helped to pray and do not give up praying because
you cannot pray.  For it is when you think you cannot pray that is when you are
praying.
C. H. Spurgeon

Pray not to be seen of men but to be heard of God.
John Mason (1646-1694)

Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
John Bunyan

Pray ye. Is an invitation to be accepted rather than a command to be obeyed.
The Kneeling Christian

Pray to thy Father who is in secret....    Mt 6:6  

Prayer alone prevents our receiving God's grace in vain.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in
every field.
John R. Mott

Prayer and theology both deal with God , but from different perspectives.  Theology,
like a telescope, views the distant stars of His qualities.  Prayer, like a space vehicle,
moves us among His qualities.  Theology studies God and prayer engages Him.  Both
are adventuresome.  Both necessary.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Prayer as it comes from the saint, is weak and languid; but when  the arrow of a saint's
prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace."
Thomas Watson

Prayer at its best is living with mind and heart utterly open to God.   
The Practice of Prayer, Albert D.Belden, p 18

Prayer, as our greatest work, breeds in us the flair for the greatest work of God, the
instinct of His kingdom and the sense of His track in Time.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Prayer does not consist in gifted expressions and a volubility of speech; but in a
brokenness of heart.
John Mason (1646-1694)

Prayer does not consist in the elegance of the phrase, but in the strength of the
affection.
John Mason (1646-1694)

Prayer draws on our whole personality; and not only so, but on the whole God.  And it
draws on a God who really comes home nowhere else.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

Prayer establishes the soul of a man or a people, creates the moral personality day by
day, spreads outward the new heart through society, and goes to make a new ethos in
mankind.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Prayer for Church unity will not bring that unity; but that which stirs, and founds, and
wings prayer will.
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth

Prayer for the in-dwelling of the Spirit, with all the fullness of his sanctifying grace,
ought then to be the most natural and continual of the petitions of the Christian.
William Patton

Prayer gives vision in the secret place, intelligence in work, sense in judgment,
courage in temptation, tenacity in adversity, and joyous assurance in the will of God.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 100

Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our
reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our
penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority,
our confidence in His care, our desires for His favor, and for the providential and
spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.
Charles Hodge

Prayer goes by faith into the great orchard of God’s exceeding great and precious
promises, and with hand and heart picks the ripest and richest fruit.
E. M. Bounds

Prayer has always been a primary mark of the saints of God in every generation of the
church. George Whitefield, who retired punctually at ten p.m. every night, rose equally
promptly at four a.m. in order to pray.
David Watson

Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to His will, in the
name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of His
mercies.
Westminster Shorter Catechism


Prayer is no more inconsistent with the unchangeable purposes of God, than the use
of any other means; for God in forming his purposes had respect to all appropriate
means of producing the intended ends, and among these prayer has an important
place.
Archibald Alexander

Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 65

Prayer is keeping company with God.
Clement of Alexandria

Prayer is a mysterious instrumentality and can, in the final analysis, be employed to full
effect and with perfect success only by those who are helpless.
Prayer, O. Hallesby, p 152

Prayer is not an act of knowledge but of faith. It is not a matter of calculation but of
confidence--"that our faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of
God." Which means that in this region we are not to be regulated by science, but by
God's self-revelation.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Prayer is not ever thing, but everything is by prayer.
Armin Gesswein   Everything by Prayer,  Fred Hartley, page  51

Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking--with a will. Our will goes into it. It is energy.
The Soul of Prayer, by P. T. Forsyth

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is adjusting to God’s willingness.
Principles and Practice of Prayer, Ivan French

Prayer is communion with God: the “home-life” of the soul.

Prayer is not like a good recipe: simply follow a set of mechanical directions and
everything turns out right i the end.
A Call to Spiritual Reformation, D. A. Carson

Prayer is God’s appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in
Christ Jesus.           A Call to Spiritual Reformation, D. A.  Carson

Prayer is practicing the presence of God, not mastering the mechanics of how to come
to God.  Prayer Made Easy, Mark Water

Prayer is so major we dare not minor on it any longer.
Armin Gesswein  Everything by Prayer,  Fred Hartley, page  52

Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is
the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into inspiration.
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth

Prayer is the proper work of the heart; yet in this present state, in secret as well as in
social prayer, the language of the lips is an excellent aid in this part of worship.
A Guide to Prayer, Isaac Watts, p 68

Prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development.
Andrew Murray

Prayer needs three organs of the body that are all located on the head. The ear hears
His word to us, the tongue repeats what we’ve heard from Him back to Him, and the
eye looks expectantly for the answer.
Armin Gesswein   Everything by Prayer,  Fred Hartley, page  91

Prayer meets with obstacles, which must be prayed away. That is what men mean
when they talk about praying through.
The Kneeling Christian

Prayer is the touchstone of true godliness.

Prayer is such a great effort to most of us because we do not pray right.
Prayer, O. Hallesby, p 42

Prayer should be the means by which I receive all that I need, and for this reason, be
my daily refuge, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy.
O. Hallesby


Pray without ceasing in this sense. Pray without a break between your prayer and
your life. Pray so that there is a real continuity between your prayer and your whole
actual life.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true
prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.
Alexander Whyte

Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the Invisible; fasting the other, with which
we let loose and cast away the visible.
Andrew Murray

Prayer is a golden chain: one end tied to the tongue of man, the other to the ear of God

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want,
whether they relate to this life or the life to come. Shall we not know how to use the
means God has appointed for our own happiness?
A Guide to Prayer, Isaac Watts,  170

Prayer is not given us as a burden to be borne, or an irksome duty to fulfill, but to be a
joy and power to which there is no limit.
The Kneeling Christian

Prayer is going into the secret place of the Most High and abiding under the shadow of
the Almighty.  
Ps 91:1

Prayer, genuine and victorious, is continually offered without the least physical effort
or disturbance.
Dr. Moule

Prayer is the key, and faith both turns the key and opens the door, and claims the
blessing.
The Kneeling Christian

Prayer is like “time exposure” of the soul to God, in which process the image of God is
formed on the soul.

Prayer is indeed a continuous violent action of the spirit as it is lifted up to God.  This is
comparable to that of a ship going against the stream.
Luther

Prayer is more than something you do; it is something God does through you.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Prayer does not change God’s will, it implements it.

Prayer is omnipotent; it can do anything that God can do!

Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness.
Phillips Brooks

Prayer is appointed to convey  The blessing God designs to give.

Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and
continuous abundance.
E. M. Bounds

Prayer is the key, and faith both turns the key and opens the door, and claims the
blessing.
The Kneeling Christian

Prayer is not a soliloquy, where everything comes from one side; but it is a dialogue,
where God’s child listens to what the father says and replies to it, and then asks for the
things he needs.

Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray,
then, my dear brother: pray, pray, pray.
Edward Payson

Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true
prayer takes far more time by the clock, than one man in a thousand thinks.
Alexander Whyte

Prayer was the cause, transfiguration was the effect.
Luke 9:29

Prayer in the heart proves the reality of conversion.

Prayer is self discipline.  The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches
the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace.  To tarry in
the presence of the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the part of the faithful
subjects.  Christian character grows in the secret place of prayer.
Samuel M. Zwemer

Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand.  God cannot deny a
praying soul.
Thomas Watson

Prayer does not equip us for greater works–prayer is the greater work.
Oswald Chambers

Prayer takes the soul beyond doctrine.

Prayer completes the return of all things back to Him from Whom they came.                 

Prayer does not consist in the elegance of the phrase, but in the strength of the
affection.
John Mason (1646-1694)

Prayer grows in proportion to its grounding in God’s Word.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Prayer, if it be done as a task, is not prayer.
John Mason (1646-1694)

Prayer in the heart proves the reality of conversion.

Prayer completes the circuit of God’s action in the world.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Prayer in the Spirit is prayer whose supreme object is the glory of God; only in a
secondary sense does it seek a blessing for self or for others.

Prayer is more than something we do it is something that God does through us.

Prayer is an athletic of the soul.

Prayer completes the circuit or God’s will, it affects His will.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Prayer is omnipotent; it can do anything that God can do!

Prayer is the soul’s breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
Thomas Watson

Prayer is a golden chain: one end tied to the tongue of man, the other to the ear of God

Prayer, real prayer, is the noblest, the sublimest, the most stupendous act that any
creature of God can perform.
The Kneeling Christian

Prayer reaches its highest level when offered in the Name which is above every name,
for it lifts the petitioner into unity and identity with Himself

Prayer is communion with God: the “home-life” of the soul.

Prayer is not really a power till it is importunate. And it cannot be importunate unless it
is felt to have a real effect on the Will of God.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Prayer is the native movement of the spiritual life that receives its meaning and its soul
only in Eternity, that works in the style and scale of Eternity, owns its principles, and
speaks its speech   The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth  

Prayer is the touchstone of true godliness.

Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us.  He is the giver of all prayer.
C. H. Spurgeon  

Prayer Is What God Hears, Not Merely The Words We Utter; God Hears Our Thoughts,
The Desires Of Our Hearts.

Prayer is not just our duty; it is our greatest dignity.

Prayer laid the tracks where the gospel was going to come.  Wellington Boone
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Prayer  secret, fervent, believing prayer  lies at the root of all personal godliness.
William Carey

Prayer should rise more out of God's Word and concern for His kingdom than even
out of our personal needs, trials, or desires. That is implied in prayer in Christ's name
or for Christ's sake,  prayer from His place in the midst of the Kingdom.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Prayer still remains what it would have been if man had never fallen.

Prayer is going into “the secret place of the Most High,” and abiding under the shadow
of the Almighty  Ps. 91:1

Prayer is measured, not by time, but by intensity.
The Kneeling Christian

Prayerless pulpits will produce prayerless and powerless congregations.
Mighty Prevailing Prayer, Wesley Duewel

Prayerless is an insult to God.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Prayerlessness means unavailability to God.  
Mighty Prevailing Prayer, Wesley Duewel

Prayerlessness proves that the person has very little love for God.
Mighty Prevailing Prayer, Wesley Duewel

Prayers and praises go in pairs, they have praises who have prayers.

Prayers are measured neither by time nor by number, but by intensity.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick,  page  21

Prayers counted on a rosary are easier than the prayers of a soul poured out in
unrestrained speech to God.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 18

Praying makes your Christian life supernatural; God gets His work done through your
praying.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Praying solves the problems of prayer.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 87

Praying will make you leave off sinning, or sinning will make you leave off praying.

Praying makes your Christian life supernatural; God gets His work done through your
praying.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Preaching must necessarily be limited, but who can put a limit to the possibilities and
power of prayer?
Principles and Practice of Prayer, Ivan French

Prevailing prayer is the most divine ministry you will ever have.
Mighty Prevailing Prayer, Wesley Duewel

Prevailing prayer is almost always for the sake of others.
Mighty Prevailing Prayer,  Wesley Duewel

Prevailing prayer is when intellect, emotion, and will unite to take hold of God.

Prevailing prayer is aggressive spiritual warfare.

Prevailing prayer makes men invincible.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 81

Private prayer, when it is real action, is the greatest forge of personality. It places a
man in direct and effective contact with God the Creator, the source of originality, and
especially with God the Redeemer as the source of the new creation.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Private prayer, when it is made a serious business, when it is formed prayer, when we
pray audibly in our chamber, or when we write our prayers, guided always by the day's
record, the passion of piety, and above all the truths of Scripture, is worth more for our
true and grave and individual spirituality than gatherings of greater unction may be.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

Proud prayers may knock their heads on mercy’s lintel, but they can never pass
through the portal.    C. H. Spurgeon

Public prayer ought to be the overflow of one’s private praying.
A Call to Spiritual Reformation, D. A. Carson

Real faith not only believes that God can, but that He does answer prayer.
The Kneeling Christian

Rest not or be satisfied with drawing nigh to God, but obtain the promise.

Rest assured that God never bestows tomorrow’s gift today.

Revivals come to those cities and communities, which have believers who have taken
up the holy work of intercession.
Prayer, O. Hallesby, p 79

Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
Satan trembles when he sees,
The weakest saint upon his knees.

Satan does not fear because we are eager and earnest Bible students --provided we
are little in prayer.

Satan loves to see us "up to our eyes" in work:  provided we do not pray.

Satan does not fear because we are eager and earnest Bible students: provided we
are little in prayer.

Satan’s chief way of hindering us is to try to fill our minds with the thought of our
needs, so that they shall not be occupied with thoughts of God, our loving Father, to
Whom we pray.
The Kneeling Christian

Saul of Tarsus had been a praying man all his life, but it was not until then that he
began to pray as God interprets prayer.  Act 9:11
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 16

Secret prayer is one of the best tests of sincere religion.

See the incense of the Lord’s intercession and your prayer will rise up with and in His
prayer.         The Hidden Life,  Adolph Saphir

Shall I come into your presence, O my God, and mock You with cold-hearted words?
C. H. Spurgeon

Should it not be recognized that the practice of prayer and intercession needs to be
taught to young believers, or rather developed in young believers, quite as much, if not
more so than other branches of the curriculum? Unless, however, we ourselves are,
through constant persevering practice, truly alive unto God in this holy warfare, we
shall be ineffective in influencing others. I am quite sure the rule holds that the more
we pray the more we want to pray; the converse also being true.
D. E. Hoste

Sin quenches prayer, affliction quickens it.
John Mason (1646-1694)


Sir Isaac Newton said that he could take his telescope and look millions and millions
miles into space. Then he added, “But when I lay it aside, go into my room, shut the
door, and get down on my knees in earnest prayer, I see more of heaven and feel
closer to the Lord than if I were assisted by all the telescopes on earth.”

So important a factor is prayer in Christian experience, that the history of a man’s
progress in the Divine life is just the history of his progress in the knowledge and in
the use of prayer.
Macgregor quoted in How Can God Answer Prayer?, William Edward Biederwolf,  p 23

So many of us pray because we are driven by need rather than kindled by grace. Our
prayer is a cry rather than a hymn. It is a quest rather than a tryst. It trembles more than
it triumphs. It asks for strength rather than exerts it.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth



Some place must be found that shall be a trysting place with God.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 34

Sometimes when we do not receive comfort in our prayers, when we are broken and
cast down, that is when we are really wrestling and prevailing in prayer.
C. H. Spurgeon

Sometimes He delays so that greater glory may be brought to Himself.
The Kneeling Christian

So true is it that the kingdom of God comes not with observation, that the greatest
things Christ did for it were done in the night and not in the day; His prayers meant
more than His miracles.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

So we pray because we were made for prayer, and God draws us out by breathing
Himself in.        The Soul of Prayer, by P. T. Forsyth

Speak to Him then, for He hears,
And spirit with spirit can meet;
Closer is He than breathing,
And nearer than hands or feet.
Tennyson


Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.

Take time in the inner chamber to bow down and worship; and wait on him till he
unveils himself and takes possession of you, and goes out with you, to show how a
man may live and walk in abiding fellowship with an unseen lord.

That we may pray for others is the deepest mystery and the crowning glory of prayer.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 110

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
John Flavel

The angel fetched Peter out of the prison, but it was prayer fetched the angel.
Thomas Watson

The art of prayer is Nature gone to heaven. We become in prayer Nature's true artists
(if we may so say), the vehicles of its finest and inmost passion.
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth  

The bane of so much theology, old and new, is that it has been deluded of prayer and
prepared in a vacuum.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

The basis of prayer is sonship. Prayer is possible and reasonable because it is filial.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 14

The Bible unhesitatingly places all instrumentalities at his disposal, and represents
him as working back of visible agencies.
Prayer and its Remarkable Answers, William Patton p 63

The biggest thing God ever did for me was to teach me to pray in the Spirit.
Samuel Chadwick

The breath of prayer comes from the life of faith.        
John Mason (1646-1694)

The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer.
Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to
recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.
John R. Mott

The contemplation of the unseen, the attempt to think ion terms of the eternal, and the
honest endeavor of the soul to enter in communion with God, in themselves, redeem
life from all that is fitful, fretful and futile.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 77

The divine pattern of each life is still to be seen in the secret place of the Most High
God.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 80

The effective prayer of faith comes from a life given up to the will and the love of God.
Not as a result of what I try to be when praying, but because of what I am when I’m not
praying, is my prayer answered by God.
Andrew Murray in With Christ in the School of Prayer.


The effects of prayer may be conveniently divided into the results of prayer upon the
person praying and the results of prayer upon the world.
The Practice of Prayer, Albert D.Belden, p 20

The evangelization of the world in this generation depends first of all upon a revival of
prayer. Deeper than the need for men; deeper, far, than the need for money; aye, deep
down at the bottom of our spiritless life is the need for the forgotten secret of
prevailing, worldwide prayer.
Robert E. Speer

The failure of the habit of prayer is at the root of much of our light distaste for theology.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

The first rule of right prayer is to have our heart and mind framed as becomes those
who are entering into conversation with God
John Calvin

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing, but
it is the chief thing. The great people of earth are the people who pray. I do not mean
those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those
who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time to pray.
S. D. Gordon

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four
hours a day alone with God were once beginners.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page  32

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four
hours a day alone with God were once beginners.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 32

The greatest need of most of us regarding prayer is not the clearing up of its logical
problems, but its efficient practice.
The Practice of Prayer, Albert D.Belden, p 13

The great point is never to give up until the answer comes, said Muller. I have been
praying for sixty-three years and eight months for one man’s conversion. He is not
converted yet, but he will be!  How can it be otherwise?

The heartbeat of intercession is servanthood.  
Love on its Knees, Dick Eastman p 6

The highest position, in the greatest and most complicated monarchy, did not keep
Daniel from daily, frequent supplication.

The key that locks the prayer closet door unlocks the chambers of paradise.

The Lord Jesus makes intercession for us (Hebrews 7:25), and God cannot say Him
“Nay.”
The Kneeling Christian

The man who has his mouth full of arguments in prayer shall soon have his mouth full
of benedictions in answer to prayer.
C.H. Spurgeon

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest
contribution to world evangelization in history.
Andrew Murray


The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never
prays.
John Wesley

The minister ought never to speak before men in God's name without himself first
speaking to God in man's name, and making intercession as for himself so for his
people.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a history of
prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.
Are thousands of missionaries and tens of thousands of native workers needed? ‘Pray
ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.’
John R. Mott

The missionary leaves by taking ship or plane; the intercessor leaves by shutting the
door of his closet.
Principles and Practice of Prayer,  Ivan French

The more we have of God’s glory, the less shall we seek His gifts.
The Kneeling Christian

The more you intercede, the more intimate will be your walk with Christ and the
stronger you will become by the Spirit’s power.
Mighty Prevailing Prayer, Wesley Duewel

The more you prevail, the more you will learn the secrets of God’s grace and the
powers of His kingdom.
Mighty Prevailing Prayer,  Wesley Duewel

The most amazing feature of that life as it is looked back upon will be its
prayerlessness.
The Kneeling Christian

The neglect of prayer proves to my mind, that there is a large amount of practical
infidelity. If the people believed that there was a real, existing, personal God, they
would ask Him for what they wanted, and they would get what they asked. But they do
not ask, because they do not believe or expect to receive.
Brownlow North

The “oil” of the Holy Spirit will never cease to flow so long as there are empty vessels
to receive it.
I Kings 4: 6

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from
prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil,
mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick (Prokope, January-March, 1998, p. 2)


The one thing above all others that bolts and bars the way into the “presence chamber’
s of prayer is unwillingness to forgive from the heart.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 31

The only thing we can secure on earth is heaven. if we draw nigh to God, God does
draw nigh

The only way to completely fail in prayer is to fail to pray!
The Praying Church, Sue Curran p 83

The power of the Church truly to bless rests on–asking and receiving heavenly gifts to
carry to men.    Ministry of Intercession, Andrew Murray   p  5

The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they
give true proof of their faith.
John Calvin (the apostle of predestination)
The purpose of prayer is not to get man’s will done in heaven, but to get God’s will
done on earth.    Phillips Brooks`

The sin of prayerlessness is a proof.....that the life of God in the soul is in deadly
sickness and weakness.
Andrew Murray

The greatest thing we can do for God or for man is to pray.
The Kneeling Christian

The amount of time we give to prayer indicates how important prayer is to us.

The best way to fight against sin is to fight it on our knees.
Phillip Henry

The Christian man at prayer is the secretary of Creation's praise.
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth

The energies of the universe, nay, of God Himself, are at the disposal of those who
pray  to the man who stirreth up himself to take hold of God.
Samuel Zwemer

The essence of prayer does not consist in asking God for something but in opening
our hearts to God, in speaking with Him, and living with Him in perpetual communion.
Prayer is continual abandonment to God. Prayer does not mean asking God for all
kinds of things we want; it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life,
Prayer is not asking, but union with God. Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God
help in the varying needs of our lives. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself, the
Source of all life. The true spirit of prayer does not consist in asking for blessings, but
in receiving Him who is the giver of all blessings, and in living a life of fellowship with
Him.  
Sadhu Sundar Singh

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet
unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in
moments of agony.
Samuel Logan Brengle

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the
Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in
China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power
and the secret of spiritual triumph.
Samuel Zwemer

The Holy Spirit is the “spirit of grace and supplication” Zech 12:10 He overcomes our
reluctance.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of prayer.

The best prayer does not seek the God’s gifts but the experience of His person.

The Holy Spirit is prayer’s great Helper.

The Inner Chamber Is The Place Where The Decisive Victory Is Obtained.

The measure of believing, continued prayer will be the measure of the Spirit’s working
in the Church.  Direct, definite, determined prayer is what we need.
Ministry of Intercession, Andrew Murray, p 22

The measure of God’s giving the Spirit is our asking.
Ministry of Intercession, Andrew Murray, p 23

The omnipotent God we pray to cannot have degrees of difficulty.

The prayer-life of man lies rooted in his instinctive recognition of his dependence on
some power or being greater than himself.
The Practice of Prayer, Albert D.Belden, p 7

The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the Great Jehovah yields.
Prayer is the sovereign Remedy.
Robert Hall

The prayer of the vindictive for forgiveness is mockery.
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth

The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see mighty
wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and
disappointment, let us answer God’s standing challenge, ‘Call unto me, and I will
answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not!
J. Hudson Taylor

The promises to hear prayer are not made to the mere form, but to the appropriate
spirit.
Prayer and its Remarkable Answers, William Patton p 73

The purpose of importunate prayer is:
1. To purge our wills to the point that our will is limited to His will.
2. To perfect our nature into complete likeness to His nature.

The purpose of prayer is not to notify God but to express our trust, our faith, our
expectation, and our heart desire.
Watchman Nee

The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much
in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page  27

The reason we do not pray as we ought is because we do not enjoy prayer as we
ought.      

There is a divine principle in regard to prayer which runs all through the Scriptures. It
is that God is pleased to unite His people with Himself in whatever He is about to do.
He first of all leads them to pray, and then does what He intends in answer to their
prayers.
Russell Elliott

The results of prayer are, therefore, not dependent upon the powers of the one who
prays.
Prayer, Ole Hallesby, p 13

There is absolutely no substitute for this secret communion with God. The public
Church services, or even the family altar, cannot take the place of the 'closet' prayer.
We must deliberately seek to meet with God absolutely alone, and to secure such
aloneness with God we are bidden to 'enter into thy closet.' God absolutely insists on
this 'closet' communion with Himself. One reason, no doubt, that He demands it, is to
test our sincerity. There is no test for the soul like solitude. Do you shrink from
solitude? Perhaps the cause for your neglect of the 'closet' is a guilty conscience?
You are afraid to enter into the solitude. You know that however cheerful you appear to
be you are not really happy. You surround yourself with company lest, being alone,
truth should invade your delusion…
Gordon Cove

There is no such engine for the growth and command of the moral soul, single, or
social, as prayer.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

The revival of religion and the revival of prayer are inseparable.

The same Spirit of faith which teaches a man to cry earnestly, teaches him to wait
patiently.
John Mason (1646-1694)

The school of prayer has its conditions and demands. It is a forbidden place to all but
those of set purpose and resolute heart.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page  27

The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer.
The Knelling Christian

The secret of much mischief to our souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way
that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers by hurrying over them.
Alexander Whyte

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret.

The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page  30

The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.  
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 30

The short prevailing prayer cannot be prayed by one who has not prevailed in a
mightier struggle of long continuance.
E. M. Bounds

The soul needs its silent spaces.  It is in them we learn to pray.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 29

The Spirit helps us in our weakness,
Rom 8:26

The Spirit Himself intercedes for us.
Rom 8:26

The Spirit imparts a sense of sonship and acceptance that creates freedom and
confidence in the presence of God.

The spirit in which we pray is much more important than the works in which our
prayers are clothed.
Prayer Power Unlimited, J. Oswald Sanders

The Spirit of God, when he is poured out as a spirit of prayer in the most glorious
measures, does not contradict the rules of a natural and reasonable method, although
His methods may have infinite variety in them.
A Guide to Prayer, Isaac Watts, p 63

The study and the oratory are allies, but the inner chamber is better to be a place apart;
then prayer enlightens thinking, and thinking kindles the altar fires of the heart.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 67

The subject is beset with problems, but there are no problems of prayer to the man
who prays!
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 21

The theory of religion is really the philosophy of prayer; and the best theology is
compressed prayer.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

The time factor in prayer is very important. In the exercise of prayer God is not tied to
our clocks. Neither is He at the other end of the phone to receive and answer our two
minute calls. It takes time to know the mind of God, to shut out the material things of
earth and to be wholly abandoned.
Hugh C. C. McCullough

The true waiting for the Lord, and going forth to meet the Bridegroom, is hidden from
outward observation.
The Hidden Life,  Adolph Saphir

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it
is burned into my heart by prayer.
John Bunyan

The unvarnished truth is that what we most frequently give thanks for betrays what we
most highly value.
A Call to Spiritual Reformation, D.A. Carson

The value of a daily habit of withdrawal and hallowed seclusionis is beyond
exaggeration.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 77

The walls of Jericho did not fall until the Israelites had circled them a full thirteen times
and then shouted the shout of faith.
Josh 6:1-20

The wonder is not that God hears prayer, but that He is our Father.  The greater
wonder includes the less.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 63

The world seeks to go out into wide and boundless fields; we desire to abide within,
where Jesus sups with us, and we with Him.
The Hidden Life, Adloph Saphir

There are many problems about prayer, but they lie outside the fact and experience of
prayer, and apart from praying there is no solution to them.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 14

The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The
reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees
long before the battle came...Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before
temptation comes, and you will always have victory.
R. A. Torrey    

There is a kind of omnipotence in prayer.

There is much praying that avails nothing, so far as we can judge.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 21

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them.

There is nothing about which I do not pray.  I go over all my life in the presence of
God.  All my problems are solved there.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 100

There is no way to learn to pray but by praying.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 21

There is a cumulative effect in prayer.  The focusing of many prayers on one life or on
a situation can change defeat into victory.
Prayer Power Unlimited,  J. Oswald Sanders

There is no easier sin to commit than the sin of prayerlessness. It is a sin against God
and against Man.
Mighty Prevailing Prayer, Wesley Duewel

There is a need in the soul of the believer that can be satisfied only when we move
from being a spectator to a participator in prayer.

There is an inseparable union between the Spirit, the Word and prayer.

There is a holy audacity in Christian life and faith which is not inconsistent with the
profoundest humility.
A. B. Simpson

There is nothing the devil dreads so much as prayer?
The Kneeling Christian

There is a marked absence of travail.  There is much phrasing, but little pleading.  
Prayer has become a soliloquy instead of a passion.  The powerlessness of the
church needs no other explanation...To be prayerless is to be both passionless and
powerless.
Samuel Chadwick

The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true
prayer.
A. T. Pierson

They who prevail in the secret place of the Most High cannot be beaten anywhere.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 81

This is what prayer is all about: not what I can get from God, but to have my heart so
radically changed by Him that I come to want only what God wants for me.
Developing your Secret Closet of Prayer, Richard Burr, p 6

Those postures of the body which the light of nature and rule of Scripture seem to
dictate as most proper for prayer are standing, kneeling or prostration…. But I cannot
thank that sitting, or other postures of rest and laziness, ought to be indulged in
solemn times of prayer, unless persons are in some respect infirm or aged.
A Guide to Prayer, Isaac Watts,  p 93,95

Those who feel they owe everything to God's grace need have no difficulty about the
range of prayer. They may pray for everything.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

Thou art coming to a King;  Large petitions with thee bring.

Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeblest child can pray, yet it is at
the same time highest and holiest work to which man can rise. It is fellowship with the
unseen and most Holy One.

Three ways to fulfill the great commission:
1.  In Person.                2.  In Provision.        3.  In Prayer.

Through prayer God gives humankind the dignity of limited causality.   
Pascal

Thus our Lord gives us “power of attorney” over His kingdom, the kingdom of heaven,
if only we fulfill the condition of abiding in Him.
The Kneeling Christian

Thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Mat 6:6

To arouse one man or woman to the tremendous power of prayer for others, is worth
more than the combined activity of a score of average Christians.
A. J. Gordon  

To begin our prayer with a petition for the hallowing of God's name and to have no real
and prime place for holiness in our life or faith is not sincere.
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth

To begin the day with prayer is but a formality unless it go on in prayer, unless for the
rest of it we pray in deed what we began in word.
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth

To cultivate the ceaseless spirit of prayer, use more frequent acts of prayer. To learn to
pray with freedom, force yourself to pray. The great liberty begins in necessity.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

To Him we may confide what we could in trust to no human friend.

\To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth. Such a life
costs. It takes time.
Samuel Chadwick

To pray “in His name” is to pray in His character, as His representative sent by Him: it
is to pray by His Spirit and according to His will.
The Kneeling Christian

To stoop well is a grand art in prayer.

To strive in prayer means in the final analysis to take up the battle against all the inner
and outward hindrances which would dissociate us from the Spirit of prayer.
Prayer, O. Halesby, p 114

To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement on earth.
Samuel Chadwick

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without
breathing.”
Martin Luther

To have power with men, we must have power with God.

Too often we are over-organized and under-agonized.
Walter B. Knight  (Wordsearch)

To pray well is the better half of study.
Martin Luther

To pray diligently is more than half the task.
Martin Luther

To pray in the Spirit means to pray in harmony with the Word of God, which He has
inspired.

To be much alone with God is the secret of knowing Him and of influence with Him.
E. M. Bounds

To effect such a radical change in our lifestyles as will make more time for prayer will
call for strength of purpose and a deep dependence on the Holy Spirit.
Prayer Power Unlimited,   J. Oswald Sanders

Tomorrow’s achievements are determined by today’s preparation. This is especially
true in regard to prayer.

To sacrifice service to pray is good,
To sacrifice prayer to do service is bad.

Tragically, we have failed to realize that prayer is the launch pad of all ministry and
without it we short-circuit God’s chosen method of work.
Developing your Secret Closet of Prayer, Richard Burr, p 18.

True Christian prayer must have theology in it; no less than true theology must have
prayer in it and must be capable of being prayed. "Your theology is too difficult," said
Charles V to the Reformers; "it cannot be understood without much prayer."  Yes, that
is our arduous puritan way. Prayer and theology must interpenetrate to keep each
other great, and wide, and mighty. The failure of the habit of prayer is at the root of
much of our light distaste for theology.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

The true close of prayer is when the utterance expires in its own spiritual fullness. That
is the true Amen. Such times there are. We feel we are at last laid open to God. We feel
as though we "did see heaven opened, and the holy angels, and the great God
Himself." (Handel's words, on completing the Messiah.) The prayer ends itself; we do
not end it. It mounts to its heaven and renders its spirit up to God, saying, "It is
finished." It has its perfect consummation and bliss, its spiritually natural close and
fruitation, whether it has answer or not.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth

To arouse one man or woman to the tremendous power of prayer for others, is worth
more than the combined activity of a score of average Christians.  
A. J. Gordon

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine
adequacy.
Ray Stedman

True prayer is not asking God for what we want but for what He wants.

True prayer will achieve just as much as it costs us.
Samuel M. Zwemer

True revival lives in prayer.
The Prayer Meeting and Its History, J. B. Johnston

True prayer is God the Holy Spirit talking to God the Father in the name of God the
Son, and the believer’s heart is the prayer-room.
Samuel M. Zemer

Truly he who prays puts, not God, but his own spiritual life to the test!
The Kneeling Christian

Unanswered yet? Nay, do not say ungranted;
Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done;
The work began when first your prayer was uttered,
And God will finish what He has begun.
Though years have passed since then, do not despair;
His glory you shall see, sometime, somewhere.
- Ophelia Adams

Unless we are living the Victorious Life we cannot truly pray “in the name” of Christ,
and our prayer-life must of necessity be feeble, fitful and oft-times unfruitful.
The Kneeling Christian

Unless we are willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what
appear legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not
look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work.
Ministry of Intercession, Andrew Murray, p 15

Unless we pray aright we cannot live aright or serve aright.

Unless the heart is right the prayer must be wrong.
The Kneeling Christian

Waiting on God is not in apathy and indifference; it implies intense activity.

We always pray best when we pray out of the depths--when the soul gets low enough
she gets a leverage; she can then plead with God.
C. H. Spurgeon

We are never really men of prayer in the best sense, until we re filled with the Holy
Ghost.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 62

We are so egoistically engrossed about God's giving of the answer that we forget His
gift of the prayer itself.
The Soul of Prayer, by P. T. Forsyth

We do not pray to inform God.  Neither do we pray to persuade Him, for His love needs
neither to be induced nor coaxed.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 66

We are never really men of prayer in the best sense, until we are filled with the Holy
Spirit.
J. Stuart Holden

We are taught to pray, not  “Thy will be changed,” but  “Thy will be done.”

We are tempted to treat God as an asset, and to exploit him. But true prayer, thinking
most of the Giver, quells the egoism and dissolves it in praise.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

We are the vehicle of the Spirit’s intercession.

We are to pray only for what God has promised, and for the communication of it unto
us in that way  whereby he will work it and effect it.
John Owen

We do not know what we ought to pray for.
Rom 8:26

We give lip service to prayer far more than we give our lips to the service of prayer.
The Praying Church, Sue Curran

We have been so busy depending on our own natural strengths, our good training and
our busyness for God that we are near spiritual bankruptcy.
Mighty Prevailing Prayer, Wesley Duewel

We know not what prayer cannot do!
C.H. Spurgeon

We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and if prayer waits for
understanding it will never begin.
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 21

We must go many times every day into the unseen world.

We must be earnest, otherwise we have no right to hope that the Lord will hear our
prayer.
C. H . Spurgeon

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our
difficulties with Him.
O. Hallesby

We cannot be men of prevailing prayer unless we study God’s Word to find out His will
for us.
The Kneeling Christian

We do not know much about prayer, but surely this need not prevent us from praying!
The Kneeling Christian

We are never so high as when we are on our knees.
The Kneeling Christian

We are on the whole disposed to emphasize activity in prayer too much.
Prayer, O. Hallesby, p 94

We enjoy His presence only when He comes of His own accord; this most precious of
all gifts none can take to himself.

We dishonor God by distrusting Him!
The Kneeling Christian

We have far too little conception of the place that intercession, as distinguished from
prayer for ourselves, ought to have in the Church and the Christian life.
The Ministry of Intercession, Andrew Murray, p 5

We shall have our Mount of Transfiguration when prayer has its rightful place in our
lives.
The Kneeling Christian

We shall find every attribute of God Most High to be, as it were, a great battering-ram,
with which we may open the gates of heaven.
C. H.  Spurgeon

We need to see much our deep needs, our great sins, for ah! that prayer shall go
highest that comes from the lowest.
C. H. Spurgeon

We pray for ourselves, for the state of the world, for the peace of all things, and for the
postponement of the end.
Tertullian

We should never think it unreasonable that God should make some things dependent
upon our prayers.

We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
A Call to Spiritual Reformation, D.A. Carson

We cannot justify our relative prayerlessness by saying that those who are peculiarly
effective are more gifted than we.
A Call to Spiritual Reformation,  D. A.  Carson

What a man is on his knees before God in secret, that will he be before men: that much
and no more. Fred Mitchell

Who can measure the influence of an hour a day spent alone with God?
The Path of Prayer, Samuel Chadwick, page 30

We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says
there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, prayer and
fasting.  We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship
with God.
Andrew Bonar

We must turn God’s promises into prayer, and then they shall be turned into
performance.   Principles and Practice of Prayer, Ivan French

What man is alone on his knees before God, that he is, and no more.
Robert Murray M’Cheyne

What does it mean to ask in His name?  We must know this at all costs, for it is the
secret of all power in prayer.

What genius does in the natural world prayer does in the spiritual.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

What is prayer? It is a sign of spiritual life.
The Kneeling Christian

What various hindrances we meet In coming to the mercy-seat.

What would happen to the Church if the Lord's Prayer became a test for membership
as thoroughly as the Creeds have been?
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth  

When a person is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can
either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way to nourish one’s life with God. Our
ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as
a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible’s idea of prayer is that we may get to
know God Himself. It is not so true that ‘prayer changes things’ as that prayer changes
me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of
redemption alters the way in which one looks at things. Prayer is not a question of
altering things externally, but of working wonders in one’s disposition.
Oswald Chambers, Christian Personal Ethics, C. F. H. Henry, Eerdmans, 1957, pp. 573ff

When asked how much time he spent in prayer, George Mueller’s reply was, “Hours
every day. But I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk and when I lie down and
when I arise. And the answers are always coming.”
Anon

When asked the secret of his spiritual power, Charles Spurgeon said: “Knee work!
Knee work!”

When men only talk about God instead of with God they are manifesting a deteriorated
faith, for the purpose of all faith is to bring us into direct, personal, vital touch with God.
Ray Stedman

When I pray coincidences happen, and when I do not, they don’t.
William Temple

When our quiet times have become hurried, how can we expect to give God the
adoration that is His due? How can we receive the guidance that God is waiting to
give? How can our hearts catch the glow of divine fire? How can we have deep
fellowship with those purposes that are really nearest to the heart of God?
( Keswick 1946 ) – Gordon M. Guinness

When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest.
Edward Reynolds

When the Lord returns, the hidden life and the hidden glory will become manifest.
The Hidden Life,  Adolph Saphir

Where there is a willing heart there will be a continual crying to heaven for help.
John Mason (1646-1694)

When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than thy words without heart.
Martin Luther

When we are alone with God we are less alone than any other time.

When God intends great mercy for His peoples, the first thing He does is to set them a-
praying.  Matthew Henry

When we ask of the Lord cooly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and
restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we “pretend” that we are seeking.
C. H. Spurgeon

When we can declare, with St. John, “Yea, and our fellowship is with the Father and
with His Son Jesus Christ” (I John 1:3), people will say the same of us:  “They have
been with Jesus!”
Acts 4:13   The Kneeling Christian

Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there
has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor
in the work of evangelizing the world.
A. J. Gordon  

When we confess that we “never get answers to our prayers,” we are condemning not
God, or His promises, or the power of prayer, but ourselves.
The Kneeling Christian

When we get a glimpse of the worth of a soul, and begin to realize that we stand
between lost men and Heaven or Hell, then we shall have real concern and the Lord
will hear our prayers of intercession.
J. W. Mahood

When we learn to come to God with an intensity of desire that wrings the soul, then
shall we know a power in prayer that most of us do not know now.
R. A. Torrey

When you pray you step into the operation of the Trinity.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything
by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely
vital prayer is. C. H. Spurgeon

Why doesn't God answer prayer.   “No true God could promise us an answer to our
every prayer. No Father of mankind could. The rain that saved my crop might ruin my
neighbour's. It would paralyse prayer to be sure that it would prevail as it is offered,
certainly and at once. We should be terrified at the power put into our foolish hands.
Nothing would do more to cure us of a belief in our own wisdom than the granting of
some of our eager prayers. And nothing could humiliate us more than to have God say
when the fulfilment of our desire brought leanness to our souls. "Well, you have it." It
is what He has said to many. But He said more, ‘My grace is sufficient for thee.’”
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth  

Why do we piously favour prayer in general and devilishly resist it in particular?
Ray Stedman

With God’s saints in all ages:  nights of  prayer with God have been followed by days
of power with men.
The Kneeling Christian

Without committal to the wisdom of God, prayer would be a very dangerous weapon in
proportion as it was effective
The Soul of Prayer,  P.T. Forsyth  

Without its biblical principles being taught, prayer is unstable.  Without our  “catching”
the principles by applying them to our lives, it is sterile.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

Words are but the body, the garment, the outside of prayer; sighs are nearer the heart
work. A dumb beggar getteth an alms at Christ’s gates, even by making signs, when
his tongue cannot plead for him…Tears have a tongue, and grammar, and language
that our Father knoweth. Babes have no prayer for the breast, but weeping: the mother
can read hunger in weeping.
Samuel Rutherford

Worship is the greatest act of which man is capable, and that true worship culminates
in the supreme labour, and even sorrow, of real prayer.
The Soul of Prayer, P.T. Forsyth  

Yet prayer is the key which unlocks the door of God's treasure-house.
The Kneeling Christian

You that manifest a concern about religion, why don’t you pray?
Martin Luther

You should, in Tertullian’s phrase, with a holy conspiracy, besiege heaven.
Thomas Manton

You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect it.
Sir Thomas  Buxton

Your praying is training for reigning with Christ.
The Arena of Prayer, Ben Jennings

You cannot expect anything from God unless you put yourself in the right place, that
is, as a beggar at his footstool. Then will he hear you, and not until then.

You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray
until you have prayed.
John Bunyan

You must pray with all your might.  That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting
gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them
for you.  It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God...This kind of prayer be
sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose.  
They will pour water on this flame.
William Booth  

You who never know what a groan is, or a falling tear, are destitute of vital godliness.

You will never be able to pray everywhere all the time, until you have learned to pray
somewhere, some of the time.
Prayer Made Easy,  Mark Water